Category: Current Affairs

1. What sort of person is awarded with Gyanpeeth Award? (1) (1) One who is a renowned literary person (2) One who has done exemplary works in the field of science (3)  Person who is famous for community works (4) None of these (5) None of these 2. Name the famous film actor who was…

1. Arun Kukmar Jain was in news recently. Why? (3) (1) He was appointed Chief Election Commissioner (2) He is the new Chief Research and Analysis Wing (3) He was made Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (4) He  is new chief of Vigilance Commission (5) None of these 2. Mauricio Macri Blanco…

1. How much black money went out of India in the year 2004 to 2013 ? (2) (1) $ 5 billion (2) $51 billion (3) $115 billion (4) No black money went out of India during that period (5) None of these 2. Name the person who is now the Speaker of Nepal’s parliament? (4)…

The redesigned irrigation projects in Telangana are heavily banking on the inflows in two major tributaries – Pranahita and Indravati, which together have annual average flows of nearly 700 TMC ft water in Telangana territory – of the main river Godavari. The dependency on tributaries has become inevitable with the hopes of getting ample water…

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is wooing American aerospace and defence technologies major Lockheed Martin to Andhra Pradesh. According to a report in The New Indian Express, the Andhra Pradesh CM is trying to convince Lockheed Martin and Airbus to set up shop in his state. At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Chandrababu…

Telangana government has introduced an exclusive e-mail policy to be implemented from next month. Move aims to create a secure environment for e-mail communication system used by state machinery. The new e-mail policy mandates all the staff to use only the official e-mail service being provided by the National Informatics Center (NIC). The state government’s…

Telangana has a vast solar potential with average solar insolation of nearly 5.5 kWh/m2 for more 300 sunshine days. The government of Telangana (GoTS), intends to make use of the positive environment in the solar market and push given by GoI for substantially harnessing the solar potential in the state of Telangana. This policy of…

Telangana has become the first State to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level; without repeating gender stereotypes in its bilingual textbook titled, ‘Towards a World of Equals.’ The book introduced on a pilot basis in engineering colleges affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU-Hyderabad) discusses gender in its composite form without limiting…

 Call it bifurcation blues, but 45,000 doctors practising in private and government hospitals across Telangana will have to re-register their names with the newly-created interim Telangana State Medical Council. Experts said such a step is inevitable after the state health department not only adopted the Andhra Pradesh Medical Practitioners Registration Act, 1968, but also constituted…

A kidney racket has been busted in Nalgonda district of Telangana. The kingpin is a 22-year-old hotel management student. He initially sold his own kidney for Rs 5 lakh in December 2014. The transplant took place in Colombo. Realising this is a lucrative business, this student turned organ trafficking agent himself. He used social media…

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on January 4 announced road projects worth Rs 41,000 crore for Telangana, including two Express Highways from the state capital Hyderabad to Bengaluru in Karnataka and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. “The total package for Telangana is Rs 41,000 crore. This is not the final figure. It is still open for discussion.…